Venkataraman Balasubramanian topic

Venkataraman Balasubramanian, also known as Bala, is a senior executive with extensive experience in servicing the needs of financial institutions globally. His general management experience includes three years at Reuters, nine years at IBM and almost 10 years at Citigroup (Shearson Lehman Brothers). He has held P&L responsibility for service businesses as well as global leadership responsibility. He has worked with a number of financial institutions in the US (HSBC, NASDAQ, Citigroup, Chase, Wells Fargo etc) in consulting and services roles as well as with a number of banks and financial institutions across Asia Pacific and Northern Europe (UK, France, Germany and Switzerland). Most recently, Bala was the Senior Vice President, Partners and Global Alliances, at Reuters Americas, LLC. In this role, Bala was responsible for defining and implementing the process, programs and expertise to drive partnering and strategic alliances into a core competence within Reuters globally. His team was responsible for enabling access to new markets and new revenue opportunities through over 450 partners globally, including managing globally Services Partners such as Accenture, IBM, Infosys and Tata. Bala received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from U.V. College of Engineering in 1980, an MBA in Management from Indian Institute of Management (I.I.M.) in Bangalore in 1982, and a Masters in Project Management from George Washington University in 1998.